Jim Shalleck, Republican Candidate for Montgomery County Executive
Republican candidate for Montgomery County executive Jim Shalleck walks along the City of Gaithersburg Labor Day parade route and talks about his campaign for office.
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Kansas Senator Pat Roberts raises his arms in the air as a crowd of supporters cheer for him on Tuesday Aug. 5, 2014, while watching primary votes come in at the Overland Park, Kan., Marriott Hotel. AP Photo/Topeka Capital-Journal, Chris Neal
Last Updated Sep 4, 2014 6:05 PM EDT
The Kansas Senate race has been shaken up just two months before the midterm elections, leaving Republican Sen. Pat Roberts in an unexpectedly vulnerable position.
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With polling showing that the Democrat-turned-independent candidate in the race, Greg Orman, stood the best chance of beating Roberts on Election Day, Democratic nominee Chad Taylor, a district attorney, announced Wednesday he was dropping out of the race.
The trouble is, the Kansas Secretary of State says he can't get his name off the ballot.
Kris Kobach, the Secretary of State and a well-known figure in Republican circles, said that Taylor would have had to declare himself "incapable of fulfilling the duties of office if elected" in a written request to remove his name by Sept. 3.
"After conferring with the office of the Kansas Attorney General, I have concluded that the written request filed by Mr. Taylor does not meet the requirements...because Mr. Taylor did not declare that he is incapable of fulfilling the duties of U.S. Senator if elected," Kobach said in a statement Thursday. "Therefore, Mr. Taylor's name will appear on the ballot for the office of United States Senator for the November 4 general election."
Taylor's request to withdraw on Sept. 3, provided to CBS News by the Secretary of State's office, merely said, "I, Chadwick J. Taylor, Democratic nominee for the United States Senate race, do hereby withdraw my nomination for election effective immediately and request my name be withdrawn from the ballot, pursuant to KSA 25-306b(b)."
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Republican Man Admits To Voter Fraud in Virginia
Despite the fact that in person voter fraud is very rare in America, it does happen. Here, a nice Republican man in Virginia openly admits (in front of a cro...
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Republican Rep. Peter King slams Obama #39;s for tan suit
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Elections have consequences, and those consequences are most acutely felt, it seems, in closely contested elections.
In at least four hot races across the nation, Republican candidates have adopted a new approach to birth control: It should be available over the counter. More rights, more freedom, Republican Cory Gardner says in a new TV ad airing in Colorado, where he is locked in a tight race with first-term Democratic incumbent Sen. Mark Udall.
The strategy is particularly notable because some of the candidates have in the past not exactly been supportive of ready access to birth control.
Gardner has been slapped around for months by Udall and his allies for his past support of personhood" ballot measures that would have legally established life as beginning at the point of conception. Only this year, when he entered the Senate race, did Gardner renounce the measures, saying that he had belatedly learned that they could restrict some forms of birth control.
Republican Thom Tillis, running against first-term Democrat Kay Hagan for a Senate seat in North Carolina, had previously said that it was within the states rights to ban birth control altogether -- although he would not say whether he supported such a move. Still, in a debate on Wednesday night, he declared that birth control pills should be available over the counter.
First, I believe contraception should be available -- and probably more broadly than it is today, said Tillis, the speaker of the state House, adding that I think over-the-counter oral contraception should be available without a prescription. If you do those kinds of things, you will actually increase the access and reduce the barriers for having more options for women for contraception.
Previously coming to the same conclusion were Republican Senate candidates Ed Gillespie in Virginia, who made his announcement in a July debate with Democrat Mark Warner, and Mike McFadden, seeking the Senate seat now held by Al Franken in Minnesota.
The moves, which bear the strong scent of election-year choreography, appear intended to blunt criticisms from Democrats that the GOP is engaged in a war on women, as demonstrated by party efforts to, among other things, strip contraceptive coverage from Obamacare and defund Planned Parenthood facilities that offer birth control as part of their services.
Women, not incidentally, are among the most targeted voter groups in the fall midterm elections -- particularly single women, many of whom who have more than a passing familiarity with birth control. (Voting by single women typically drops off in non-presidential years; in the last midterm races in 2010, 22 million fewer unmarried women voted than in 2008 even though the number registered is growing, according to a study by the Voter Participation Center and Lake Research Partners.)
Nationally and in contested states, women have strongly gravitated to Democratic candidates, so their dropoff bodes ill for a party already struggling under an unpopular president and a Republican cast to the states in play this year.
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New Republican pitch to female voters: Over-the-counter birth control